Saturday night saw Jordan, Allistair and new gamer Luke (Hi Luke) come over for a small Apocalypse game of 4000ish points. I ran 200 points of Blood Angels, Allistair allied with me and ran about 1850pts worth of Grey Knights. Across the table Jordan ran 4000pts of Chaos, split between daemons and CSMs, along with Rusty, his Reaver Titan (I've been calling it Rusty in an effort to get Jordan using the name) and Luke ran approx. 800pts of Tyranids. TO beef up our side Allistair also ran my Baneblade.
We played on a 6'x8' table made up of my 'rough' realm of battle table, and Allistairs 'ski field' realm of battle table, which we suspect he polishes between games just to listen to Jordan grumble about Bloodletters skiing down the slopes. The mission was normal Apocolypse.
Overall it was a lot of fun. I tried out the 'Dantes Sanguinary Host' formation, with Dante, an Honour Guard, and three squads of Sangunary Guard. I matched that up with two Baal Predators - one with flamestorm and heavy flamers, the other with TL Assault Cannon and heavy bolters. I then added two furioso dreadnoughts - one vanilla and one librarian. Both in Drop pods with deathstorm launchers.
A few highlights - Indestructable Paladins holding our right flank, wiping our nearly all of Lukes Nids, then taking on two big mobs of Bloodletters, along with Skull taker, and taking one casualty in the whole game. Gotta love the Nemesis Warding Staff - if you're the one with the knights. Dante collected the head of a Bloodthirster - got to explore Honour Guards a bit more - they proved to be an excellent companion to Dante - and they can have Storm Shields.
A few lessons learned - it takes a Titan to kill a Titan. Failing that, at least three super heavy tanks. The lone Baneblade just couldn't knock off void sheilds fast enough (they kept regenerating) and the rest of the force just lacked the punch necesary to take it out. Also, Sangunary Guard are definately a 'scissors' unit - very good against normal troops, but they fall like leaves when facing anything with power weapons (e.g other scissors units, and most rocks). Building a list made up almost exclusively of SG is not a good idea. Next time substitute at least one unit for Terminators, and if they are the only troops, don't put them all in one place.
Luke did ok considering it was his first game. Admittedly an Apocalypse game may not be the best way to start.
Technically, I caused one wound to Allistair's Grey Knights when his psyker failed a leadership test and zapped one of his own men. Apart from that he handed my arse to me with just 6 models against my 39 (I guess size isn't everything). I'm going to buy Zoanthropes en masse now. Lets hope they dont fail their psyker tests too. I enjoyed it heaps. Thanks for the invite.
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